Myron Korduba during Ukrainian revolution (based on memoir sources)

The Arab spring logic of the Ukrainian revolution

Motivated by the unusual patterns and dynamics of the Arab Spring, we construct a model explaining the vulnerability of the newly established incumbent to popular unrest. Using this model for the case of similar protests in Ukraine, we find that the current combination of availability of information, military capacity of the incumbent and his radicalization, together with the opportunity costs ...

Myron Lee Bender

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A Memoir on Memory

on to work with another of the founding fathers of the field, Eric Kandel, and then moved into the orbit of entre-preneurial memory science as a " director of model sys-Memories Are Made of This tems " at Helicon Therapeutics. By Rusiko Bourtchouladze In this book, Dr. Bourtchouladze has produced a New York: Columbia University Press (2002). charming little introduction to the history of resear...

Memoir on Diphtheria

60 YEARS OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY: MEMOIR: Harris' neuroendocrine revolution: of portal vessels and self-priming.

Geoffrey Harris, while still a medical student at Cambridge, was the first researcher (1937) to provide experimental proof for the then tentative view that the anterior pituitary gland was controlled by the CNS. The elegant studies carried out by Harris in the 1940s and early 1950s, alone and in collaboration with John Green and Dora Jacobsohn, established that this control was mediated by a ne...